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Tjiuri' Vt'ls.. )Uiiii» i;iii\ 111 .M^oi, Wlki smiled iis shu rnd'' mi a tixci'. At llin end nf lliu riilu, tlio niil was inside, Ami the smile on the fan* of the llijcf. This old nursery rhyme illustrates tlio credulity of the female ulmraulcr, mid the fondness lor beautiful initio minimis; for, without dmilit, iiii African tfeor is indeed a beautiful animal, but man is an animal, notwithstanding bis humanity, and we aro surrounded on all sides by numberless examples of his innalo savory. The hopeless misery of women, tied by the marriage bond to debased, drunken,' ignorant brutes, who mo dubbiid by nature's laws as lords of tho creation, is, perhaps, one of the most lamentable things to be witnessed in modern times; for tho Victorian cm exhibits, perhaps, the highest type of rellned oivilisation known in history, with its awful oppnsito splendidly depicted by (.'liarlcs Dickens, in Ins characters of Bill Kikes and I'nuiiu Wo hear of philanthropy in its thousand forms —the noble ell'orls to rescuo lads from the surroundings of vice and crime, but it seems as hopeless a task to stop juvenile depravity as the engineering impossibility to dam Niagara, Why, it may bo asked, all this disquisition J It, is to impress by all tho force of pen. lliV desirability to onltivatu habits of philosophy and reflectiveness, and here we are met with tho benelicenco of Nature, which j-ives to the Old Dominion Virginia, lhe weed brought to Inland by Sir Walter Ralcinh, the inhaliii" of which in the fonr 4 imiian Chief Cigarettes, induces thateaW liens of thought and hap['3 f framo of mind under which tho present condition of socalled civilisation may he pondered over with I beneiit by the statesman, the phiuuUiii'opist, and indeed by everyone,